On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 05:36:52 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Saturday, June 30, 2018 02:34:00 Joakim via Digitalmars-d
wrote:
On Saturday, 30 June 2018 at 02:23:57 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
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That's nice, but since you present no arguments other than
simply stating that it's "valuable" or "a very good idea"
that's "gone up"- why? who knows? That would require actually
supplying an argument- the 99.9% of D users who've never
attended Dconf are unlikely to be persuaded that it's ever
worth attending DConf or wasting any more time with a language
that is more focused on blowing time and money on that
outdated conference format than getting work done on the
language.
As I stated previously, having people meet in person can be a
game changer. It gives you a different perspective on people
and allows for much more efficient communication in many cases.
Some stuff does work best when communicated online, but a lot
of stuff works better when you have people in the same place
discussing things.
It could certainly be argued that we should do more with less
traditional stuff like birds of a feather sessions or other
activities that are geared specifically towards folks
interacting, but the talks convey lots of useful information
and ideas, and there's a lot of discussions that go on about
the talks and other topics during the time that talks aren't
happening. It would be a real loss to the D community if we
lost that.
As I stated previously and Adam reiterates, then do the actual
in-person stuff that you find worthwhile and cut out the stuff
that's "best when communicated online." I completely disagree
that talks are in the former category and not the latter,
particularly when a large majority of the scheduled time is spent
on them.
